Element 4 - Health and Safety Management Systems - Check

Question 1

Give 5 methods of active monitoring?

Answer 1

Workplace inspections

Safety tours - walking around the workplace for 15 or so minutes and seeing what hazards you can identify

Safety sampling - partial inspection

Attitude surveys

Behavioural monitoring - positive reinforcement for good behaviour and correction for bad behaviours.

Environmental monitoring - noise etc

Benchmarking against other organisations

Health surveillance

Question 2

Give 5 methods of reactive monitoring

Answer 2

Accidents and Ill health data

Sickness and absence rates

Dangerous occursnces

Near misses

Civil claims

Compaints by the workforce

Enforcement action

Question 3

How would you get to the root cause of an incident?

Answer 3

Loss or injury

Injury

Incident

Accident or near miss

Immediate cause

Unsafe acts or conditions

Alcohol, horseplay, mechanical failure

Root cause

Lack of training and supervision
Inadequate maintenance of plant
Lack of signage

Question 4

How do you approach an investigation?

Answer 4

Gather information

Analyse findings - determine root cause

Recommnedstions - prevent re occurance

Question 5

What is reportable under RIDDOR 2013?

Answer 5

Death

Specified injuries

Dangerous occurrence

Diseases

Any employee incapacitated for 7 consecutive days

Immediate hospitalization of a non worker

Question 6

What is a specified Injury

Answer 6

Fractures other than fingers and toes and thumbs

Amputations

Loss of sight

Crush injury to head or torso

Unconsciosness from head injury

Question 7

Dangerous occurrences

Answer 7

Contact with overhead cables

Scaffold collapse over 5 meters

Lifting equipment failure

Train collision

Certain diving incidents

Certain fires and explosions

Question 8

Diseases and ill health

Answer 8

Work related upper limb disorders

Dermititis

Occupational asthma

Hand arm vibration syndrome

Tendonitis

Tebosynovitis

Question 9

How would you report a death or major injury to HSE?

Answer 9

Phone immediately

F2508 within 10 days

Question 10

How many days do you have to submit a F2508 if a worker is off for 7 days or more

Answer 10

15

Question 11

What do you do if someone contracts a disease at work?

Answer 11

Complete a f2508a immediately after a doctor confirms the diagnosis